New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n, Inc. v. Cuomo
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
🤝Mixed outcome
Core assault weapon and magazine bans and all vagueness rulings went the states' way, but the seven-round load limit and the Remington 7615 ban were held unconstitutional.
GunMapUSA assessment of the outcome's direction, not a statement that the court decided rightly or wrongly.
What the court held
Gun owners and dealers challenged New York's SAFE Act and Connecticut's post-Sandy Hook legislation, which prohibit possession of certain semiautomatic 'assault weapons' and large-capacity magazines, on Second Amendment and vagueness grounds. The Second Circuit applied intermediate scrutiny and upheld the core assault weapon and magazine prohibitions in both states and rejected every vagueness challenge, reversing district court rulings that had voided the SAFE Act's 'version' and 'muzzle break' language. It also held that New York's separate seven-round load limit fails intermediate scrutiny and that Connecticut's ban on the non-semiautomatic Remington 7615 infringes the Second Amendment.
Summarized from the court's opinion.
Sources
- CourtListener — retrieved 2026-08-08
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